According to a study published in the October issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, overweight individuals are not just at greater risk of having sleep-disordered-
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Lead author, assistant professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Paul E. Peppard, Ph.D stated, "We knew that excess body weight is strongly related to more frequent breathing events—apneas and hypopneas—in persons with SDB. In this study, we wanted to go a step further and measure how much the excess weight contributes to the severity of individual breathing events."
The deathly dangers of untreated sleep apnea made national news in August, when a large government-funded eight year study found adults older than 40 whose breathing and sleep were disrupted most often were almost 50 percent more likely to die than those who slept normally.
Among the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort study participants in the overnight study, 40% were obese. Researchers found that BMI predicted the degree to which the body's tissues were "starved" of oxygen during apneas and hypopneas. In fact, each 10-point increase in BMI predicted a 10 percent increase in the severity of oxygen depletion associated with SDB events.
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